Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hopefully they go on: "We may envisage the use of a standard packet of antigens . . . for the great bulk of the consumers. This would [represent] the various strains of the Group A streptococci, and the staphylococci, pneumococci, tubercle bacilli, typhoid, paratyphoid and diphtheria organisms, and eventually the virus antigens of poliomyelitis, rubella, measles and other diseases. Other packets of disease antigens for special regions, seasons or fractions of the population might be demanded...
...psychology, and ends up more a scare piece than a genuine study. Its naturalistic manner is drapery rather than flesh; it simply gives a New Look and a domestic air to melodrama. The melodrama itself is never stinted: the dope peddlers, for example, pay off as theater but bulk much too large for a serious problem play...
...live in Europe for the rest of his life. Escaped from his Puritan cage, Santayana had released himself not only for flitting from London to Paris to Florence to Venice to Rome but for strenuous mental flights in the bulk of his 30-odd works. The delight of the letters is that Santayana is always ready to stray off the course of his philosophic thought into detours of personalities and opinions. Some pithy detours: ¶"Germans as far as I know have no capacity for being bored. Else I think the race would have become extinct long ago through self...
...Virologist Robert Davies Defries 56 University of Toronto, for leadership in preventive medicine-his laboratories brewed most of the virus used in the Salk 1954 polio vaccine, made the bulk of Canada's 1955 vaccine...
...recent spate of official reunification talk developed because the bulk of the West German population is beginning to lose interest in the issue. This is not to say that there is any opposition to reunification in West Germany. Everybody is "for" it, just as everybody is "for" democracy. But the real question is just how much one is willing to give up for a united Germany. While in the early post-war years the Germans did not have much to sacrifice, now they have a great deal they would have to give up for reunification, and there seems little willingness...